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THE INFLUENCE OF CONTRARIANS AND OPPORTUNISTS ON THE STABILITY OF A DEMOCRACY IN THE SZNAJD MODEL
2004
Sznajd-Weron and Sznajd introduced a model investigating the democratic development in a closed community. This model is based on the USDF-principle ("united we stand, divided we fall"). However, it faces the problem that the system tends either to a dictatorship (i.e., 100% pro or 100% contra) or to a stalemate state (i.e., exactly 50% pro, 50% contra). Based on their model, I will show that a democratic system keeps alive due to the existence of both opportunists and persons in opposition.
Les institutions italiennes à travers les analyses de Luigi Sturzo (1871-1959)
2013
From the 1950s Luigi Sturzo captured the dysfunctions of the democratic system instituted in Italy. He courageously denounced the evils that afflicted the newborn democracy. The strange relationship between government and opposition, the growing importance of the parties, the proliferation of legislation, the reversal of functions between parliament and government, the reform of the Senate, are just some of the problems identified by Sturzo. His criticism, however, was not pointless but proactive in the meaning that he diagnosed in weaknesses and indicated the means for a better and more efficient working of institutions in a democratic country without making it necessary to undermine the c…
The system of government and the opposition in Poland after the 2015 parliamentary elections
2021
The category of the system of government in Poland requires reference to ‘the governance style’ of the right, and to the tendency that has appeared in international politics in recent years to call it populist nationalism. The objective of this paper is to show that in the case of Poland after 2015, the thesis of the retreat of democracy has no factual grounds, and it can be countered through the use of evidence. The system of government in Poland after the Law and Justice party came to power cannot be described as a contradiction to democracy. Citizens are not being manipulated and deceived. They are aware of the content of decisions made by the executive branch. The opposition is able to …
The democracy–ochlocracy–dictatorship transition in the Sznajd model and in the Ising model
2005
Abstract Since its introduction in 2000, the Sznajd model has been assumed to simulate a democratic community with two parties. The main flaw in this model is that a Sznajd system freezes in the long term in a non-democratic state, which can be either a dictatorship or a stalemate configuration. Here we show that the Sznajd model has better to be considered as a transition model, transferring a democratic system already at the beginning of a simulation via an ochlocratic scenario, i.e., a regime in which several mobs rule, to a dictatorship, thus reproducing the corresponding Aristotelian theory.
¿Actos preparatorios o pre-crímenes? ¿Penas o pre-castigos? Aproximación al fundamento de la criminalización de la preparación delictiva
2018
Este trabajo se orienta a mostrar que buena parte de los tipos preparatorios vigentes constituyen manifestaciones de un Derecho penal de autor y a llamar la atención sobre los serios peligros que ello implica desde la perspectiva de los principios dimanantes de un Estado democrático de Derecho. A tal efecto, se parte principalmente del ejemplo del derecho positivo español pero se alude también a la experiencia angloamericana, que refleja de manera particularmente expresiva la evolución del Derecho penal contemporáneo hacia un modelo puramente preventivo y de la peligrosidad, y se examina asimismo la regulación italiana como exponente de dicho paradigma. En la última parte del estudio se exp…